John Gay's The Beggar's OperaHarold Bloom Chelsea House Publishers, 1988 - 143 Seiten |
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... keep going in a dangerous existence ( and this opera intends to teach us that all existence is dan- gerous ) , you require a rhetoric of self - justification and indeed self- exaltation . You need never misrepresent your motives ...
... keep going in a dangerous existence ( and this opera intends to teach us that all existence is dan- gerous ) , you require a rhetoric of self - justification and indeed self- exaltation . You need never misrepresent your motives ...
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... keep himself out of the scene of which in fact he was the stage manager . The richness of the ironical humility of Chaucer is that he combines the truth - seeking feeling in the trick with its poetical one of pastoral ( the notion that ...
... keep himself out of the scene of which in fact he was the stage manager . The richness of the ironical humility of Chaucer is that he combines the truth - seeking feeling in the trick with its poetical one of pastoral ( the notion that ...
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... keep company with lords and gentlemen ? He should leave them to prey upon each other . PEACHUM : Upon Polly's account ? What the plague does the woman mean ? The discovery follows . The puzzle is that both Peachums feel dic- ing with ...
... keep company with lords and gentlemen ? He should leave them to prey upon each other . PEACHUM : Upon Polly's account ? What the plague does the woman mean ? The discovery follows . The puzzle is that both Peachums feel dic- ing with ...
Inhalt
Mockpastoral as the Cult | 5 |
Mercenary Fathers Possessive Daughters | 37 |
The Beggars Triumph | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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